Word: either
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rocky himself was making no promises either way. Said he: "I have no other interest in any other job except being Governor of this state." But the size and scope of his victory had made him a threat to Nixon whether he liked it or not. An Associated Press poll of Republican state chairmen last weekend showed 20 pointing to Nixon as a clear front runner, two (from New York and Massachusetts) claiming Rocky was already the leader-and ten who said it was a tossup between Nixon and Rockefeller...
...they did not permit their pro-Democratic bias to control their predictions of what would happen on Election Day. In general, the reporting-punditing press previewed the 1958 elections with considerable prescience and quite a lot of caution. They had the trend right, but in the main they were either unwilling to make specific forecasts or they underestimated the size of the Democratic sweep...
...Broadway show than for an opera, Producer David Merrick billed Menotti's Maria Golovin as a "musical drama," insisted that it be reviewed by drama critics, even tried to bar music critics from the theater. Producer Merrick (nicknamed "The Abominable Showman" by Broadway wags) need not have troubled. Either as drama or as music, Maria Golovin (first performed in Brussels last summer) is something of a disappointment. The plot is built on a theme that seems to have an obsessive fascination for Composer-Librettist Menotti: the maimed (in this case blinded) hero who is loved and finally destroyed...
...priest living in Jerusalem after the return of the Jews from exile in Babylonia. His priestly narrator was familiar with pre-exilic creation stories, and he used a set of Mycenaeo-Edomite pictorial tablets "given to, or taken by, Joshua's invading Israelites when they seized Hebron." But either deliberately or through ignorance, he read the tablets in the wrong order and with the wrong cast of characters. This resulted in various anomalies, such as the story of Eve's creation from Adam's rib-"equaled in perversity only by the post-Homeric Greek legends of Athene...
...pulling out of the project. Cambridge, the most logical place for the HUT, has shown no interest so far, but Herzog hopes as the project gains stature Cambridge will become involved. Cambridge schools, significantly, have not accepted apprentice teachers from the MAT program at the Graduate School of Education either...